Robert Wyatt – I’m A Believer
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Throughout Robert Wyatt’s prolific, often profound, musical life, a deep love of jazz has been the conduit between his own celebrated jazz-rock legacy with Soft Machine and Matching Mole, his individualistic, highly imaginative solo career and the deep world of jazz music and musicians he has become involved with along the way.
Inspired by its inherently rebellious, left-leaning nature, jazz has also fuelled his political beliefs as well as his music’s magpie-like eclecticism, while his distinctly melancholic, engagingly forlorn vocal style has won him a legion of die-hard fans outside the mainstream. Marcus O’Dair’s newly published book – Different Every Time: the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt – explores his jazz inspirations and continues here as Wyatt reveals how jazz has been with him from childhood onwards
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